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10 Top Disciple Making Trends for 2019 (Part 1)

Patrick Bradley — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 10:00:51 +0000

by Bobby Harrington: We champion discipleship-first people – those who see life through the lens of being disciples of Jesus who make disciples of Jesus. These people form our tribe. Discipleship.org exists to help the members of this tribe to be faithful and effective disciple makers.

Discipleship.org is like the “chamber of commerce” for disciple making – we aggregate and promote the leaders, organizations, speakers and writers who we consider partners. So as point-leader for Discipleship.org, I get a front row seat to watch and listen to the state of disciple making in our community. Recently over 1400 pastors and leaders from around the country joined over 20 networks/organizations at our third annual National Disciple Making Forum.

I have been prayerfully filtering through many conversations from this forum and our other gatherings and learnings from the past year.

Following is my annual summary of the encouraging trends that I am observing for 2019. The first five are wide-spread observations and the last five are trends we want to explicitly encourage.

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Three Characteristics of Church Planting Systems

Patrick Bradley — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 10:00:40 +0000

By Ed Stetzer: Three basic findings describe where North American organizations are collectively in adjusting their systems to equip churches to become church planting churches.

Implementation of Church Multiplication Practices

First, we are seeing significant attempts to implement church multiplication practices into church planting systems, particularly in an organization’s vision and training.

In our survey, we asked the question: Where does your organization use language such as (or similar to) church planting churches, church multiplication, Level 5 churches, sending churches, reproducing churches, or parent churches?

Almost half of the 130 organizations who answered have incorporated church multiplication language into either their mission or vision statements, and more than half have incorporated it into their value statements.

When asked about which competencies they provide training for, 73% of organizations indicated that they provide training in church multiplication.

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How to Eat for FREE at Exponential East 2018

Patrick Bradley — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 17:30:26 +0000

by Patrick Bradley: Free is a church planter’s love language, right? Why wouldn’t you want to eat for free at Exponential?

Kidding aside, there will be lots of great church planting groups, tribes & organizations at Exponential East 2018 from Feb 26 – Mar 1 in Orlando. I kept seeing these invites for free info-meeting meals and thought I’d put together a directory so you can connect with the right group:

Listed chronologically:

Did I Miss One?

DM me (@plantingtactics) on Twitter and I’ll post it!

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church planting networks Archives - Passion for Planting

10 Top Disciple Making Trends for 2019 (Part 1)

Three Characteristics of Church Planting Systems

Implementation of Church Multiplication Practices

How to Eat for FREE at Exponential East 2018

Stadia Church Planting

Acts 29

Forge America

Move NE

NewThing Network

Did I Miss One?